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Microservices Communication in .NET Using gRPC

By : Fiodar Sazanavets
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Microservices Communication in .NET Using gRPC

By: Fiodar Sazanavets

Overview of this book

Explore gRPC's capabilities for faster communication between your microservices using the HTTP/2 protocol in this practical guide that shows you how to implement gRPC on the .NET platform. gRPC is one of the most efficient protocols for communication between microservices that is also relatively easy to implement. However, its official documentation is often fragmented and.NET developers might find it difficult to recognize the best way to map between C# data types and fields in gRPC messages. This book will address these concerns and much more. Starting with the fundamentals of gRPC, you'll discover how to use it inside .NET apps. You’ll explore best practices for performance and focus on scaling a gRPC app. Once you're familiar with the inner workings of the different call types that gRPC supports, you'll advance to learning how to secure your gRPC endpoints by applying authentication and authorization. With detailed explanations, this gRPC .NET book will show you how the Protobuf protocol allows you to send messages efficiently by including only the necessary data. You'll never get confused again while translating between C# data types and the ones available in Protobuf. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained practical gRPC knowledge and be able to use it in .NET apps to enable direct communication between microservices.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Basics of gRPC on .NET
5
Section 2: Best Practices of Using gRPC
9
Section 3: In-Depth Look at gRPC on .NET

Summary

Congratulations! You have now reached the end of this book.

In this chapter, you have learned how to debug both client and server implementations of gRPC on .NET. You now know how to configure the server to return detailed errors to the client. Likewise, you have learned how to apply interceptors to both the client and the server to enable global error reporting and event logging.

You have also learned how to use loggers in gRPC on .NET. We have covered the fundamentals of configuring logging on ASP.NET Core, and you have learned how to insert these logs both into gRPC interceptors and internal gRPC processes.

We have also gone through the concept of applying metrics to your application. You now know that metrics consist of data that can be easily plotted on time series graphs to help you identify trends, and we explored counters and durations as an example of this.

You have been shown how to extract built-in metrics emitted by gRPC libraries on .NET. Also, we have...